Who were these men? They were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity. Wilbur was unquestionably a genius. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few had ever seen. That they had no more than a public high school education, little money and no contacts in high places, never stopped them in their “mission” to take to the air. Nothing did, not even the self-evident reality that every time they took off in one of their contrivances, they risked being killed.

The Carnegie Library has +100 copies. Available at Amazon for less than at $2.50 plus $4 shipping.

Sunday, April 3 at 2:00 PM

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Science and Skeptics Book Group. The Wright Brothers. David McCullough.